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2020-12-31-accounts

2020

Annual Report of the Parochial Church Council Churchwardens’ Fabric Report Financial Statements

Registered Charity Number: 1130093 Address: The Parish Office, St Mark’s Church, St Mark’s Hill, Surbiton, Surrey, KT6 4LS

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Presented to the the Annual Parochial Church Meeting 23[rd] May 2021

Contents

Contents
STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT 1
The Parochial Church Council 1
Charitable Status 2
Objectives and Activities 2
Public Benefit 3
Day-to-day Management 3
Sub-Committees 3
Risk Management 4
Parish Safeguarding 4
PROFESSIONAL ADVISORS 4
Bankers and Fund Managers 4
Insurers 4
Solicitors 4
Architect 5
Organ Maintenance 5
Piano Maintenance 5
Independent Examiner 5
ANNUAL REPORT 6
Overview 6
Thank you 6
VICAR’S REVIEW OF 2020 6
Summary 6
Public benefit 7
Hello and Goodbye 8
Morning Worship on Sundays: a timeline 9
Morning Worship on Sundays: method, reasoning and pros and cons 10
Attendance 11
Evening worship 13
Sub Committees 13
Communication 13
ADULT CHRISTIAN STUDY 14
Overview 14
Discipleship Sub-Committee 14
Home Groups 14
MUSIC 15
ST ANDREW’S AND ST MARK’S JUNIOR SCHOOL 15
CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE 16
Children’s and Young People’s Committee 16
Sunday Club 16
Sunbeams 17
Uniformed Organisations 18
PASTORAL CARE 18
OUTREACH AND SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY 18
Charity and Social Action Committee 18
Activities 19
Fundraising 19
Charitable Giving 19
Food Bank 20
Christmas Day Lunch 21
FELLOWSHIP IN FAITH 22
Parish Breakfasts 22
Mothers’ Union (MU) 22
Flying Circus 22
PROPERTY 23
Lettings 23
1, The Mall 24
Property Management Committee 24
THE GARDENS 24
St Mark’s Church 24
St Andrew’s Church 24
ECO COMMITTEE 24
PICTURE 4: BUG HOTEL 24
COMMUNICATION AND PUBLICITY 25
Online church 25
The Welcome Committee 25
Communications 25
The Parish Magazine 26
AUDIO VISUAL (AV) COMMITTEE 27
CHURCHWARDENS’ REPORT ON THE FABRIC, GOODS AND ORNAMENTS OF THE CHURCHES 27
General 27
St Mark’s Church 28
St Andrew’s Church 28
FINANCE 28
Parish Accounts 2020 28
Income 28
Expenditure 29
Income against Expenditure 29
Assets 29
Big Picture Committee 29
Reserves Policy 30
Parish Support Fund for the Diocese 30
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 31
CONTRIBUTORS TO THE REPORT APPENDIX 1
KINGSTON DEANERY SYNOD 2020 APPENDIX 2

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PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF

SAINT ANDREW AND SAINT MARK, SURBITON

REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2020

Structure, Governance and Management

The Parochial Church Council

Members of the Parochial Church Council (PCC) hold office in accordance with the Church Representation Rules – either ex-officio; or by election or appointment at the Annual Parochial Church Meeting; or by co-option.

The following served as members of the PCC for all or part of the period from 1 January 2020 until approval of the financial statements on 14 April 2021:

Naomi Bamford-Hurrell Anne Barker *** Valerie Baxter *** The Rev’d Carole Bourne Gary Buckley Mary Elliott Hugh Evans Helen Goepel *** Andrew Horn The Rev’d Michael Johns-Perring Anne Knowles – Churchwarden (until 11 Oct 20) * Jane Kosa * Diana Lewis – Churchwarden Christopher Madden ** Clare Mannall Anne Miller * – Churchwarden (until 11 Oct 20) * Andrew Miskin – Treasurer Toni Mitchell **

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Dan Nmadu Rod Pearson – Churchwarden (from 11 Oct 20) ** Katherine Reed – PCC Secretary Jackie Robbs The Rev’d Robert Stanier – Chairman Michael Smith – Churchwarden (from 20 Dec 20) ** Martin Taylor – Churchwarden (until 11 Oct 20) * John Wickenden * Ian Wilson *** Eileen Wingrove **

Notes:

The PCC is responsible for making decisions on all matters of general concern and importance to the parish, including deciding how the funds of the PCC are to be spent. All eligible members of the congregation are encouraged to register on the Electoral Roll and to stand for election to the PCC.

Charitable Status

The PCC has charitable status and the members of the PCC are the trustees. The charity is registered with the Charity Commission under the number 1130093.

Objectives and Activities

The sole charitable object of the PCC is the promotion of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to the doctrines and practices of the Church of England. In furtherance of this object the PCC has a statutory responsibility to co-operate with the minister in promoting in the parish the whole mission of the church, pastoral, evangelistic, social, environmental, and ecumenical.

The PCC continues to achieve its primary object by:

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Public Benefit

The Trustees are aware of and consider the guidance of the Charity Commission on public benefit including, in particular, the specific guidance on charities for the advancement of religion. The charity fulfils its public benefit requirement through the provision of opportunities for public and private Christian worship in its two churches. It provides teaching in the Christian faith. It offers pastoral care to members of the congregation, residents in the parish and others. It supports other charities throughout the world. It organises outreach social activities for church members and others in the community including a Christmas Day lunch for people who would otherwise be alone on Christmas Day. It contributes to the work of the wider Church of England, particularly in the Diocese of Southwark.

Further information about the charity’s activities is provided later in this report.

Day-to-day Management

The PCC has delegated some of its functions (but not its trustee responsibilities) to a number of groups and people who report regularly to the PCC. In addition, certain individuals, including the sacristans and the director of music, fill specific roles in the running of the parish and are authorised to incur expenditure on behalf of the PCC within prescribed limits.

Sub-Committees

During 2019, the sub-committee structure which had originally been established in 2017, in order better to harness the parish’s outstanding volunteer base, was consolidated. These sub-committees continued to meet during 2020 (albeit virtually), and two new sub-committees (the Audio-Visual committee and the Eco committee) were formed. Some of the sub-committees have delegated budgets in support of their work. The sub-committees report regularly to the PCC. A list of all these subcommittees is set out below, and reports from the sub-committees are contained in this Report:

Table 1: Sub-committees

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Audio-Visual 27
Discipleship 14
Welcome 26
Social Action and Charity 19
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Children and Young People 16
Property Management 23
Lettings 23
Finance and Income 29
Environment (“Eco”) 25
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Risk Management

The PCC has given consideration to the risks to which the PCC may be exposed, and it considered that the systems which have been established are suitable for the minimisation of such risks, for safeguarding the assets of the PCC, and for the prevention and detection of fraud. A risk register is maintained which is reviewed annually by the PCC.

Parish Safeguarding

We have continued to monitor activities and situations in the church, and Judith Murray and Charlie Bamford as Parish Safeguarding Officers are points of contact alongside the Vicar for anyone with a safeguarding concern. Their photographs and points of communication are on public view in both churches. During the year, the PCC reviewed its safeguarding policy to ensure that it remained consistent with the guidance issued by the diocese.

Professional Advisors

Bankers and Fund Managers

National Westminster Bank plc, 10 Victoria Road, Surbiton, Surrey KT6 4JY

CAF Bank Ltd, 25 Kings Hill Avenue, Kings Hill, West Malling, Kent ME19 4JQ

CCLA Investment Management Limited, 85 Queen Victoria Street, London EC4V 4ET

Insurers

Ecclesiastical Insurance Group, Benefact House, 2000 Pioneer Avenue, Gloucester Business Park, Brockworth, Gloucester GL3 4AW

Solicitors

Winckworth Sherwood LLP, Minerva House, 5 Montague Close, London SE1 9BB Palmers Solicitors, 89-91 Clarence Street, Kingston upon Thames KT1 1QY

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Architect

Sue Kent BSc Dipl. Arch RIBA, Inspecting Architect, Howard : Fairbairn : MHK, Chartered Architects, Lambourn House, Redlands, Coulsdon, Croydon, Surrey CR5 2HT

Organ Maintenance

B C Shepherd & Sons, Pipe Organ Builders, 1 Mill Ridge, Edgware, Middlesex HA8 7PE

Piano Maintenance

Victor Kee, Piano Tuning and Repairs, 126 Amyand Park Road, St. Margarets, Twickenham TW1 3HP

Independent Examiner

Timothy Brown, A.C.A., 50 The Ridings, Surbiton, Surrey KT5 8HQ

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Annual Report

Overview

2020 was a year markedly different from any previous year, as the parish adapted to life during the coronavirus pandemic.

Words have appeared in our everyday language which we would not have used or even heard of before March 2020 - lockdown, social distancing, self-isolating, WFH (work from home), keyworkers, in person, e-meeting and of course Zoom! As our daily vocabulary has extended so the parish has adjusted to the changes COVID-19 has made to our work and home life. Businesses and organisations have talked of the ‘need to pivot’ and ‘to be agile’, ‘to be flexible to change’ in these unpredictable times.

As the church buildings closed for a time, our church community remained connected, and continued worshipping and meeting because the ministry and admin team was able to ‘pivot’ and ‘be agile’ in responding to the restrictions by quickly transferring to ‘Online Church’.

The report of the year’s activities has been written by the many people who lead or undertake events within the parish. This is an extensive and varied group and the style of this report reflects this. A full list of contributors is at Appendix 1 .

Thank you

The extensive, successful and effective range of activities detailed in this report would not be possible without significant help and support from a large number of people, both regular members of the congregation and others who support the church and its work in the community. While these individuals are not named in this report, the PCC acknowledges the roles, scope and functions undertaken and wishes to extend its grateful thanks and appreciation for all those who have contributed, and continue to contribute, to the life of the parish.

Vicar’s Review of 2020

Summary

2020 was a year like no other. Even now, the implications of the Coronavirus pandemic, the consequent lockdowns, and how these have brought about permanent changes in our lives, are far from fully worked out. I am convinced, however, that in the future, historians of the United Kingdom will see this as the pivotal year of our lifetimes.

The economic impact on the church in 2020 can be seen in our accounts; the impact on worship can be seen through our service registers. Frankly, there is almost no area of church life which has been unaffected by COVID-19. In this, the church is no different from the wider world: you only have to look at the collapse in use of

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Surbiton’s excellent railway station to see how Surbiton itself is in the process of a seismic change. The demographic make-up of Surbiton will be different in the future.

The spiritual impact on the church is less obvious, but significant nonetheless. In 2020, the Church of England generally had to grapple with decisions about opening and closing buildings in order to prevent the spread of the virus, often at times of major festivals; some parishes were more cautious and guarded about in person church services, others were more willing to take calculated risks in opening. We have tried to pursue a sensible balance. The times when services have been online only have brought into question access to the sacraments; moreover, the absence of singing for so much of the year has been heart-wrenching. Some key parts of worship have been missing.

The saving grace has been new ways of connection made possible by new technology and within that there has burned a dogged spirit, determinedly and often ingeniously finding ways of connecting with each other and remaining a community in unforeseen ways. In certain aspects, our community has risen to the occasion beyond our wildest dreams of what we thought was possible when the first lockdown began. Moreover, some people are finding church accessible in a way they have never done for years, or ever.

Public benefit

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Hello and Goodbye

Picture 1: Michael after celebrating his first mass on 18 October 2020

Michael Johns-Perring, who joined us as assistant curate at Petertide 2019, was ordained priest at All Saints, Kingston, in October 2020, and it has been wonderful to continue to have him, along with his family, as part of the parish.

Sadly, several members of our congregation died in 2020.

Alan Lewis-Reid died in February. Alan had been a pillar of the 8 am congregation for the last two decades, and an Englishman of the ‘old school’. He was unfussy, unpretentious and unfailingly positive, and was much loved.

Andy Christmas, who died in April, in the first wave of COVID, had been part of the St Mark’s congregation

since his birth. He was a lifelong wheelchair user, and muscular complications meant that speech was not easy for him; his dogged determination to continue to worship at St Mark’s, whenever possible, was an inspiration. For much of his adult life, he lived at Fiddlers Green, just off the Ewell Road, a building specially designed for adults who could only live partially independent lives: this had been designed by his mother, Sylvia Christmas, who herself was a major figure at St Mark’s. A memorial service is planned for the summer of 2021, having been postponed several times.

John Perry died in the autumn, from cancer. He had been part of the St Andrew’s choir for something like sixty years, first as a boy treble and then as a wonderful tenor. There are many other ways he served the church, including as churchwarden, but to

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list out the posts in which he served in a way would underplay his significance. It was his sheer, constant presence, genial and yet devout, which set the tone for a generation of worshippers at St Andrew’s. He was also a giant figure in the Kingston community more generally, and his funeral was livestreamed to over 200 screens. Had we been able to host it ‘normally’, the church would have been full to bursting. It is hoped to mark his contribution to St Andrew’s singing with a special choral service at some point when social distancing regulations no longer apply.

Morning Worship on Sundays: a timeline

From the start of the year until Sunday 15[th] March, church worship continued more or less as normal. On 15[th] March, the only differences from ‘normal’ were that we did not shake hands at the peace, and we decided not to offer tea and coffee after the service so as not to be a COVID risk. Looking back, this now seems relatively lax; certainly, it was hard then to believe quite how stringent the first lockdown would soon be.

Seeing that we would soon not be able to meet physically, on 20[th] March, we created a YouTube channel and offered our first online sermon, using Psalm 137 as a guide to lockdown living; on 25[th] March came our second, this time on the Rule of St Benedict for help. 29[th] March was the first time we published a sermon online on a Sunday morning. This has happened almost every week since then.

In terms of Sundays, on 22[nd] March, Mothering Sunday, there was no morning service offered, but rather there was a distribution of daffodils to the homes of people who were mothers or who acted as mothers. On Sunday 29[th] March, the only online material was the sermon.

On Palm Sunday, Sunday 5[th] April, morning worship resumed with two online services, one for children with young families, and one more traditional service, both led from the vicarage, using Zoom. It seemed very novel at the time. There has been regular online worship on every Sunday morning since then.

Throughout April and May, the government requested that no in-person church services be permitted. The Archbishop of Canterbury even forbade clergy from leading online services from within church, in order to show solidarity with others who were not allowed to go to their place of work: he led the Easter service from his kitchen table, for example.

The ban on clergy entering churches ended in June, but services were not permitted until July. They had to be carefully regulated, with no singing, and at least two metres distance between households. We began again on 12[th] July, with people booking their slots by emailing the parish office. At St Mark’s, chairs were moved into small clusters, distanced; at St Andrew’s, the pews were moved into socially distanced spaces.

These were not, however, physical only services: they were what we have for a time called ‘hybrid’ services, though aspects of them may become the norm in the future.

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That is to say, that something like two-thirds of the congregation still joined in on Zoom, but a third were in church.

‘Hybrid’ services continued from 12[th ] July until 1[st] November, when the government imposed a second lockdown. Once again, worship in churches was forbidden. The choir had only started singing again (socially distanced) that very Sunday. For a month, services were online only.

Services resumed after the end of the second lockdown on 6[th] December in their ‘hybrid’ form. Unfortunately, COVID cases had not declined but only stalled in November: the emergence of a new, more contagious variant was causing a rise in cases that really took off at the end of the second lockdown. Case rates increased throughout December, and after a huge spike in the third week, on Saturday 19[th] December, the government imposed a third lockdown.

The difference with this lockdown, in church terms, was that the government had not mandated a ceasing of in-person church services. However, at an emergency meeting on the afternoon of Sunday 20[th] December, the ministry team and churchwardens took the decision to cancel all physical services till further notice, including all the Christmas services, as well as the planned ‘Christmas journey’ which was due to happen outside. At that point, cases in Kingston stood at c.900 cases per 100,000, and it was felt too risky to continue.

Morning Worship on Sundays: method, reasoning and pros and cons

Faced with the closure of physical space, churches like ours were faced with a blank canvas, limited partly by technological capability, and partly by vision. Some created ‘pre-recorded’ videos, clipped together; others avoided online worship and created packs and leaflets that were delivered to people’s homes; others livestreamed services but had no active participation from viewers at home.

As vicar, I took the view that we should aim for:

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that we were ‘one’ congregation, rather than a ‘superior’ inner circle in church, with an ‘inferior’ outer circle outside church.

In order to create interactivity between the congregation at home with each other and with the liturgy, we decided that the best platform would be ‘Zoom’. At first, it felt unlikely that elderly members in particular would adapt, but in fact, almost everyone learned quite swiftly how to make the links work.

Attendance

Chart 1: Sunday morning attendance

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Online worship was in some ways more measurable than physical worship, but not in others. At any one time, the computer records the number of ‘screens’ tuning in on Zoom, and YouTube and Facebook record the number of views of an online sermon; the computer cannot, however, tell whether people are doing something else at the same time while their screen is on. Marking whether someone has ‘attended’ a service is almost an existential question: can they have attended the service if they were also doing the ironing or preparing Sunday lunch? In a sense, that only brought into focus that someone can be physically in church while a sermon is being preached, but not actually listening very hard.

At our first Zoom services, we had about 30 screens at the 9.15 am for children, and about 75 screens at the 11 am for adults. The biggest single online-only morning was on 14[th] June, when 10 were following the BCP communion service on Facebook Live at 8 am, there were 30 at the 9.15, 90 at the 11 am, and a further 15 at ‘Young Zoomers’,

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a discussion group for children (an initiative which we tried to run, but which, in the end, did not take off as hoped). But on that day, we had 150 clearly participating in parish worship.

On a typical Sunday throughout the summer, that figure was more like 120 to 130. This is a significant drop on previous years, and of the drop, a disproportionate number of children have been affected: we have not been able to offer Sunday Club or physical interactivity at the 9.15 am (or a biscuit after the service!). The 9.15 am service was more negatively impacted than the 11 am, overall.

The above figure does not account for the number of people who watched the sermon at a time other than Sunday morning: typically, the YouTube sermon had about 25 views each week.

For some people, Zoom worship has been dissatisfying. It is impossible to pull off communal singing beyond a slightly chaotic rabble, though that can work very well at times, for our service for young children. More critically, people are absent for the sacrament. Some who had been regular churchgoers since their childhood went for over nine months in 2020 without receiving the sacrament. The intangible, but real, sense of fellowship and hospitality that is brought about by a cup of tea after the service was also lost.

At the same time, for others, Zoom has been brilliant. One person with a medical condition, who finds draughty church buildings bring on coughs and colds, has been able to attend weekly from the warmth of their own home; others, who have moved away from Surbiton perhaps many years ago, have enjoyed logging into our services from afar. At one baptism, a Godparent was able to be present from Australia when she would never have been able to participate in the service in the old days.

The dichotomy of response even continues for the ‘post service’ moment. For some, the division of people at random into breakout groups after the service has been genuinely enjoyable; it has cut through any cliques and some people have met each other for the first time even though they have been attending the same church service for months or even years. Some, who find starting a conversation with someone difficult, have felt greater confidence in the way they are given an entry into a conversation by just being placed in a breakout room.

While Zoom offered good levels of interactivity for those who were able to attend, it depended on being able to click on the link. The technological side of this was largely overcome; within a few weeks, almost everyone, even those with limited computer expertise, could work out how to do it, and there was a phone link for those who could only use the phone. What was impossible was for people just to ‘drop in’, as they might do, on a physical service. Growth is difficult to achieve, for a church modelled like ours, where accessibility and openness is at the key. Similarly, our links with the

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community and the number of people encountering our church because they had used the buildings dropped massively. This is a definite weakness.

One way we became more open was by streaming our services on Facebook as well as doing Zoom. In the autumn, we started streaming Morning Worship live on Facebook every day, and this was regularly watched by 5 to 10 screens each morning; in fact, attendance was higher than it had been before.

The technology for our first Zoom service was very basic. Thanks to the efforts of various people (see report from the Audio-Visual subcommittee), we were gradually able to improve our offering so that, in church and at home, people were able to see each other, see the text of the liturgy and also watch what was happening at the altar and lectern. This required significant investment in screens, wires, microphones and a huge amount of effort from certain volunteers.

Evening worship

We continued to offer evening worship until the first lockdown began. Since the autumn, we have reintroduced the 6 pm service, though it has often been an online only service, depending on the lockdown situation. Since the first lockdown, we have not felt able to offer ‘Healing’ services, since they have depended on physical touch, albeit only hands on a head or a shoulder. These will be reintroduced when appropriate.

Thursday nights at 9 pm was a slot when, during the first lockdown, we trialled offering Compline by Zoom. This at one point was attracting around 30 people and it continued to have a dozen or so worshippers every Thursday until the end of the year.

Sub Committees

Nearly all the committees continued to meet during 2020, albeit virtually.

Communication

New forms of communication became more important than ever.

The biggest one was the extended reach of the weekly email, which by the end of the year was going to around 300 addresses. This became the most crucial way through which Zoom codes were disseminated as well as offering a way of communication for church events and prayers.

Our Facebook page became more of a hub than ever before, including sermons, and general parish news. A parishioner’s guide to creating an Easter garden had several thousand views.

Our YouTube channel had 98 subscribers at the end of the year. The most watched sermon was one by the Vicar on BlackLivesMatter, which has been watched by 500 people.

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Alongside this, the Vicar sent out printed newsletters roughly every two months by post, partly to reach those who were not online, but also because even those people who are online users enjoy physical content from time to time.

Adult Christian Study

Overview

In 2020, two of our three home groups continued to meet online, at least intermittently, during the lockdowns.

Moreover, during the first lockdown, the Vicar led a three week Zoom course on the Book of Leviticus, which was attended by around 30 participants.

Discipleship Sub-Committee

The Discipleship Committee met twice in 2020, once in person before the first lockdown, and once at the end of the year via Zoom. Plans for providing a study and prayer space in church have been put on hold, along with other initiatives flowing from the Prayer Workshop organised in October 2019. The plan for a parish Quiet Day at Wychcroft retreat centre was postponed until June 2021.

Home Groups

Tuesday Evening Home Group

The group started Lent with a plan to look at I, Daniel Blake , and managed to watch the film together, but with the onset of the pandemic had to forfeit meeting in person. The group continued to meet online until Easter, but thereafter meetings became more sporadic due to members’ work and family commitments. However, the group continued to keep in touch with a WhatsApp group, and met at Christmas, virtually, with drinks and treats. When possible, the group will look at reconvening.

Friday Afternoon Group

This group continued to meet through 2020 under Jackie Robbs’ leadership. Until March the group met in person for fortnightly prayer and Bible study, looking at the work of the Holy Spirit through Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians. During the rest of the year when the group could only meet remotely, prayer and Bible study were split into separate activities. In a fortnightly Bible study via Zoom, the group covered the Lord’s Prayer and the book of Ruth. In alternate weeks the group pooled prayer requests and set a time to pray through them, so they could be in communion even though apart. Numbers remained strong: up to 16 people joined the Bible studies via Zoom. One group member diligently prepared and put together notes for those who could not attend the Zoom studies, and another delivered hard copies. Regular telephone contact was maintained with those without internet.

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Music

Sadly, due to Covid restrictions throughout most of 2020, the activities of both the adult and children’s choirs were almost completely curtailed, apart from a short period leading up to Christmas, when the adults were able to sing for some Sunday services culminating in a Lessons and Carols service on 20th December.

Planned trips to sing at Canterbury Cathedral in April (adults) and Guildford Cathedral in May (children) had to be cancelled.

Special thanks must go to those members of the choir who have acted as soloists at the Sunday morning hybrid services during the times when a full choir has not been possible in church. Similar acknowledgements must go to our team of pianists for their input whenever this has been allowed. All of the aforementioned should be heartily praised for their patience and flexibility during what has been a most devastating year for music both within the context of the parish as well as in the wider world.

Several valued members of the adult choir moved away from Surbiton during 2020 so, when choral singing is allowed to recommence, the choir will be very much reduced in numbers. A considerable time of rebuilding will be required over the coming months (and even years) to return the music in the parish to the level it was at before the pandemic struck.

We were, of course, all devastated by the death in October of John Perry, who had been such a loyal servant to our choir, singing both as man and boy since the early 1960s. His funeral took place at St Andrew’s on 6th November under the COVID restrictions, but it is hoped that there will be occasions in the not too distant future where all will be able to celebrate the life of John, who made such a huge contribution to our parish, not only musically, but in so many other ways.

St Andrew’s and St Mark’s Junior School

SASM Junior School has had another successful year under the leadership of Alison Vigurs, now in her tenth year as head. The school pivoted brilliantly in terms of offering online schooling and was able to offer more ‘live’ online lessons than any other primary school in the area.

The school preserved Collective Worship every morning, led remotely by staff and once a week by clergy.

People who have served as Foundation Governors this year are: Robert Stanier, Carole Bourne, Ruth Gilmore, Shafaly Khan and Michael Johns-Perring. Diocesan Governors are Anne Barker and Joy Aboim. James Walker served as an Associate Governor but stepped down during the year, given other pressures. The Vicar has continued to serve as chair. The quality of support offered by the parish to the school in this way is a major contribution to the Surbiton community.

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Children and Young People

Children’s and Young People’s Committee

The Children’s and Young People’s sub-committee’s terms of reference are to review and develop the ministry of children and young people in the parish aged 0 to 16 years. This includes worship and teaching for children and young people, parents with babies and young children, communication with families, all age social events and Parish Pilgrimages.

The committee normally meets four times a year. In 2020 the committee met only once, in early February. Agenda items included Easter activities, an all-age Prayer Activities day, families at the 9.15 first Sunday of the month Eucharist at St. Mark’s, Sunday Club, children’s area at St. Andrew’s and two questions about the work we do with children and young people as part of the Articles of Enquiry for the Archdeacon’s visitation, scheduled for April.

At the meeting there was agreement to go ahead with a Prayer activities day in June, a Beating of the Bounds walk at Pentecost and confirmation of a Parish Pilgrimage to Salisbury cathedral booked for 3 October.

Recent changes to encourage families to sit near the front and participate more at the 9.15 Eucharist at St. Mark’s were endorsed, and a suggestion to use a children’s Eucharist prayer welcomed.

For Sunday Club the progress of a WhatsApp group was discussed, two new members of the team were welcomed, and the story of Moses suggested for the Lent teaching project.

There was agreement to research more appropriate and practical seating and furniture for the children’s area at St. Andrew’s.

Regarding the two questions in the wake of the Archdeacon’s April visit, there was agreement to commend the Bread Making afternoon as the best thing we have done from a CYP perspective in the last year, and how we engage with older children/young people (age 11 plus) as regards what we would like to achieve next.

Following this meeting, informal consultation with parents regarding the 9.15 am Eucharist service at St. Mark’s was being processed and feedback gathered.

Sadly, since March 2020, COVID has brought all meetings, consultations, excursions and activities to a halt. There will be a lot to take forward for the future.

Sunday Club

At the beginning of 2020, Sunday Club met eight times between 12[th] January and 15[th] March. 47 children attended over these eight sessions with an age range approximately from 5 to 12 years.

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In January and February, the group followed the Roots lessons (http://www.rootsontheweb.com) and this included discussing questions such as “What is Church?”, reflecting on “We are all different but all followers of Christ” and finding out about the Holy Spirit at work in us, with reference to the first two chapters from Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians. Sunday Club also looked at the story of the Transfiguration from Matthew’s Gospel and talked about glory.

The Lent project was the story of Moses, as told in Exodus 2-14. This provided an opportunity for some Old Testament teaching, and the story provided lots of drama and excitement to keep the children engaged. There were plans to show extracts from the animated Prince of Egypt DVD and to hotseat a character from the story each week, but, sadly, COVID meant it was only possible to manage two of the four scheduled sessions. However, those included the discovery of a baby rescued and an Egyptian murdered, Moses arguing with God, a burning bush and, with Miriam and Moses in the hot seat, storytelling started well.

Grateful thanks go to all the Sunday Club team (and to churchwardens and all who provided technical and other support), and we look forward to starting up again when we can.

Sunbeams

Our church playgroup, Sunbeams, started the year in the usual way, meeting in St. Mark’s church hall on Wednesday mornings. The main age range of the children attending is 0-3 years, and we followed the usual playgroup format of providing toys and activities to play with, refreshments at half time, and a singing session at the end. In March, following government guidelines, we introduced extra health and safety precautions, but unfortunately on 1[st] April we had to close due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Picture 2: Sunbeams toilet roll creations

In the summer term we transferred our activities of story time, singing and craft activity to weekly Zoom sessions. Our toilet roll challenges, masterminded by one of our families, were also put on our Facebook page.

In the autumn term, plans were made for Sunbeams to meet again in the church hall, with

small ‘bubbles’ of 5-6 families at each session. Unfortunately, Covid-19 numbers rose again, so for all of the autumn term we were back to meeting on Zoom.

Our outreach to local families, which has been such an important part of running our play group, has been severely curtailed this year. We have found that Zoom is not a good format for the age group we cover, with only a small number of families joining

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us on Wednesday mornings. We have however kept in regular contact with families by email, offering support in a variety of ways, and each Sunbeams family was sent a Christmas card, designed by Michael the curate, from the team.

Uniformed Organisations

During 2020, the Parish has maintained contact with the local uniformed groups (Beavers, Cubs, Scouts, Guides and Brownies) and we look forward to welcoming them back for parade services as soon as we are able to do so.

Pastoral Care

2020 presented many new challenges, and pastoral care came to the forefront, particularly from March onwards, as people faced not only a global health emergency, but were separated from their usual support networks of friends and family because of lockdown.

While the ministry team took the lead in our response to the pandemic, the team was supported by many, within our church community, who volunteered to reach out to those who might otherwise have become isolated, particularly during periods of lockdown. A database was created, and volunteers were paired with those needing help. In addition to contacting and helping vulnerable and shielding members of the church community, those on our Christmas lunch list were also contacted. This year has highlighted pastoral care as a ministry that all Christians share in.

Despite the limitations on contact, the aim has been to continue to provide spiritual, emotional, and practical support to others, as far as possible. The ministry team have continued to meet regularly to make sure no-one has been forgotten. In some areas, we have not been able to provide the same level of support as we would expect to give in normal times. The provision of home communion has not always been possible, physical visits to care homes have been limited and ministry at the time of death has also been affected. When it has been permissible, we have aimed to have our churches open for periods of private prayer.

Outreach and Service to the Community

Charity and Social Action Committee

The Committee meets every two months, to encourage, support and empower members of the congregation and others to be open to future initiatives through charity and social action. It oversees initiatives whereby the parish and congregation raise funds or make donations to charitable causes, and ratifies these causes through the PCC. The pandemic and its associated restrictions last year has seen meetings move on to Zoom.

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Activities

The activities co-ordinated by CSAC were limited and modified over the course of the year because of the pandemic. These changes are detailed in the reports coming from:

The Night Shelter has been put on hold this year while Joel (at the time of writing) is about to reopen under the auspices of Kingston Churches Action on Homelessness.

There will be further information on Joel once the Centre reopens in 2021. Several members of the congregation have expressed an interest in visiting and leading activities at Joel, which will now focus on those currently with addictions and will have a permanent staff of five professionals.

Kingston Street Pastors’ activities were curtailed during most of 2020.

Fundraising

Monthly fundraising events have continued to prove popular, even taking account of the shift from in-person to online events. As with previous years, our events have enabled generous donations to be sent to support the work of local and overseas organisations. The fundraising events have included online pub quizzes, wine tastings and whisky tastings. As we were unable to have our usual Christmas Fair, we held an online auction and cake sale instead, with auction lots and cakes donated by parishioners. The auction was opened, virtually, by Felicity Kendal and we were ably assisted by a professional auctioneer. As we were unable to hold our usual Christingle services, where money is raised for the Children’s Society, the PCC agreed to make a donation to the Children’s Society.

Charitable Giving

The charities in the table below were agreed by the PCC as those to be supported each month in 2020. Each charity was assigned a mentor to lead the relevant events.

This year the PCC had agreed the charities to be supported by the usual range of fundraising events, but those plans were altered radically by Government restrictions to curtail the spread of Covid-19 in March.

However, the technical expertise harnessed to make online church services possible was also used in the pursuit of new ways for fund-raising each month, honouring the support promised to every charity identified. The vicar and curate, and others, devised quizzes, wine and whisky tasting, and other imaginative fund raising, and these made a valuable contribution to the social life of the parish during lockdown. The PCC supplemented the contribution made to certain charities.

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Table 2: Amounts raised by the parish for Charity of the Month, 2020

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Month
Event Raised
(before addition
of Gift Aid)
January Oxygen Quiz Night £1,237.00
February Shepherd’s Hospice (Sierra Leone) Wine Tasting £1,537.20
March Bishop’s Lent Appeal Lent Lunches £294.40
April Fiddlers Green None due to Covid
May Christian Aid None due to Covid
June Leprosy Mission Online Wine Tasting £559.40
July Matabeleland Link Diocese Online Quiz £989.74
August Kingston Churches Action on Homelessness Online Wine Tasting £732.00
and Joel Community Trust
September Action around Bethlehem Children with Online Quiz £681.25
Disability
October United Society Homegrown Pumpkin £160.00
Sale
November Fircroft Trust Online Whisky Tasting £750.00
December Children’s Society and Welcare Christmas card £200.00
delivery and parish
donation
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Source: Parish accounts

Food Bank

The parish has been supporting the local food bank for at least seven years. There are collection points in each church and the donations are collected and taken, roughly once a month, to the Big Yellow Store in Tolworth, where the local Trussell Trust (https://www.trusselltrust.org/) have a storage unit. From there, donations are taken to New Life Baptist Church, where they are sorted and boxed up. Recipients are supplied with a voucher by social services or other support agencies, which are exchanged for a box containing three days’ worth of food.

Picture 3: Harvest Festival display at St Andrew’s

Since the commencement of the pandemic in March 2020, and the closure of both churches for much of the year, opportunities for the congregation to make donations have been much reduced. Nevertheless, during the first lockdown, two collections were arranged from outside St Andrew’s, resulting in three boxes full of tins and dried goods. In addition, a total of eight boxes were donated from items given during our Harvest service and before Christmas.

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In addition to donations of food, two members of the congregation contributed, respectively, by selling home-grown tomato plants (the proceeds were split between the food bank and Christian Aid, the latter receiving £350), and making and selling face masks, the proceeds of which were donated to the food bank.

Once normal services resume at each church, deliveries to the food bank collection point will resume. All donations are very gratefully received and will continue to help people in need.

Christmas Day Lunch

In 2020, the parish’s Christmas Day Lunch went through an enormous metamorphosis! Although messages about Christmas Day gatherings were confusing for families, it became clear to those organising our usual Christmas Day Lunch that it would certainly not be possible for us to present our usual sit-down three course lunch with all the trimmings, the Queen’s message and carols, followed by the distribution of cake and presents.

In 2019, the parish Christmas Day Lunch team worked with Surbiton High School for the first time, and was delighted when the school agreed to work together again. In 2020, however, in view of the restrictions, a meals-on-wheels type delivery of exactly 100 lunches was planned. The plan was supported by our parish administrator, who prepared the invitations and tracked responses, and a parishioner who managed the driver schedule, which meant organising a total of 37 volunteer drivers from the parish and SHS (both staff and parents).

Some organisation was required to deliver hot meals to so many recipients. SHS managed to source bags, donated by Wren Kitchens, to ensure the food was kept hot during delivery. SHS also secured the donation by the school of all the food, and the services of the school chefs. The congregation donated presents, and those that were not wrapped were suitably prepared and placed into 100 Christmas bags donated by Waitrose, who also offered mini Christmas crackers, mini mince pies, and serviettes, which were included in all of the bags. Also included was a slice of cake for each recipient, lovingly baked by the parish’s own star baker, who sliced her confection up accurately into 100 portions, all placed into special Christmas cake bags.

All in all, the operation was a resounding success. Everybody who requested a dinner received one, and all recipients were delighted to have a hot dinner delivered to their door, along with a present. The parish office received several notes and calls expressing thanks.

It is hoped to continue providing the Christmas Lunch going forward in partnership with SHS. However, after 10 years, Moira Greenfield is stepping down from leading the organisation of the event, so there is an opportunity for another person or persons to step up to the challenge. Moira says: “I can recommend it as being the most

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satisfying way to deliver Christ’s message of love and kindness by creating our own version of Bethlehem in Surbiton.”

Fellowship in Faith

Parish Breakfasts

The last Parish Breakfast was in February 2020. Thereafter, they have had to cease due to COVID, but the team is looking forward to starting up again as soon as this is possible. In the meantime, they would like to thank two of the team who have both moved on to pastures new, but whose hard work, commitment, humour and grace in creating a valuable social event after church on the first Sunday of the month have been deeply appreciated and will be much missed.

Mothers’ Union (MU)

The branch currently has 29 members. We managed four meetings in St Mark’s Church and transitioned to Zoom for the remaining meetings in 2020. Michael Johns-Perring has proved to be a wonderful addition to the parish and also to our MU branch. We heard from Michael on his Christian journey, and in July he also hosted an MU prayer meeting, with a focus on lockdown.

We all know how linen features in the bible, and we had a wonderful Zoom presentation from a parishioner who is an expert on this wonderful fabric. She delivered a very interesting session on how it is produced, alongside a highly relevant update on the sustainability of the material and its importance to the modern fashion industry.

We were unable to have our usual mince pies and coffee after the Christmas Eucharist, but our branch secretary came up with a great idea of delivering a special Christmas tea bag and biscuit to our members instead.

As usual our meetings are open to any member of our congregation. It has been wonderful to welcome so many who have been interested in our talks and who have learned more about the work of the MU.

The branch collects 5p coins to enable families in Southwark Diocese, who have not been able to go on a holiday, to take advantage of a scheme called ‘Away From It All’ (AFIA). In 2020 we also began to collect 20p coins in Smartie tubes as a fundraiser for Kingston’s Hestia Refuge. If you have 5p or 20p coins to spare, we would be happy to add them to our collections. Thank you to members of the parish who already do this.

Flying Circus

In the past, the Flying Circus social group has arranged monthly visits to places of interest in and around the London area including gardens, museums and galleries. It has not of course been possible to continue with these during 2020, but the Flying

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Circus has gone online and enjoyed some excellent virtual visits, including one to the moon!

Property

Lettings

Overall, income from lettings fell by over half (see above). However, the year ended on a slightly positive and hopeful note, with a good core of hires, including Dicky Birds After School Club and various children’s groups returning to the hall and rooms by the end of October. A lot of work was put into returning these hires safely to our church buildings with COVID-19 risk assessments, guidelines and new hire agreements being signed. Feedback from hires was that with good communication and structure of COVID-19 rules and assessments from the church, the hirers felt more confident in returning safely. We were also able to respond quickly to enquiries for the use of St Mark’s and St Andrew’s churches as exam centres in the autumn term 2020. We secured a 6-week schedule of hires at St Mark’s Church by Surbiton High School as a public exam centre and a 6- week schedule at St Andrew’s Church as an ABRSM exam centre. Income (£8,000) from these two hires helped towards the loss of income from the regular hires who had not returned in the autumn term.

Charts 2 and 3: Rental Income 2019 and 2020

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£6,000
£4,000
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1, The Mall

It is still the intention of the Diocese to buy out the loan made to the parish to enable the purchase of 1, The Mall. The process, which has already experienced delay, has been further delayed due to the economic impact of the pandemic. The way the property is used has not changed. 1, the Mall continues to be the residence of the Curate. In autumn 2020, the Diocese paid to replace all external doors and windows with double glazing.

Property Management Committee

The current informal arrangement whereby individuals have taken on responsibility for simple maintenance jobs continued in 2020. COVID restrictions precluded many practical activities, but a number of essential projects were identified and these will be actioned as soon as lockdown is lifted. It is intended that the Property Management Group will also be re-formed with a dedicated Chairperson.

The Gardens

St Mark’s Church

Following instances of anti-social behaviour in the secluded yew path leading to Church Hill Road, the police have been advised and will continue to monitor the situation. The trees have been pruned and excess vegetation has been cleared, making the area very much more open. The approach to the rear of the church hall was also extensively pruned to improve security.

A wildlife friendly border is being created along the front of the church next to the pavement; this will be completed in 2021. The church gardens continue to evolve and various eco-friendly projects are planned for 2021. COVID restrictions prevented us from inviting Surbiton High students back to the garden to help, but it is hoped that this regular event will resume soon.

St Andrew’s Church

Following completion of the repairs to the wall and railings on the Maple Road boundary in 2019 as a result of a road traffic collision, the only remaining outstanding work is for replanting of the shrubs and replacement or improvement of the grass.

Eco Committee

Picture 4: Bug Hotel

The Eco Committee met for the first time in December, under the chairship of the Curate. According to its Terms of Reference, the Committee exists to “To proclaim and protect the gift of God’s creation, in the light of the climate emergency”. To achieve this, it

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leads “on work to reduce the environmental impact of the work and worship of both our churches”. The Eco Committee builds on the work carried out in completing the A Rocha Eco Church Questionnaire. The results of this survey are being fed into a parish Eco Action Plan, which the Eco Committee is putting together.

Communication and Publicity

Online church

As referenced in the Vicar’s Report, the ministry team achieved, in a few weeks, a move to online church which in normal times would have taken months. Developments to parish administration systems were also compressed into days and weeks rather than months. At the end of the first lockdown at the beginning of July, services were “hybrid” (both online and in-person). In-person attendance, with limited seats, had to be pre-booked. The need to pre-book seats for the church services and for Track and Trace registers became part of the weekly parish admin, as well as weekly digital communications. At the beginning of the first lockdown in March 2020, the parish office had a database of contacts who received the weekly email from the Vicar. This was not a comprehensive list, and the subsequent development of a Mail Chimp account has produced a database of 405 subscribed individuals of whom 313 receive the Vicar’s weekly email. The “open” rate for this weekly email is high, averaging 72% who regularly open the email with an extra 7% who are moderately engaged, that is sometimes will open the email. This 80% engagement figure means 240 individuals are highly or moderately engaged with the church. This has been an important tool in maintaining and strengthening existing connections, especially with those on the fringes of church, and developing new ones.

The posting of a ‘Lockdown Letter’ written by the Vicar about every three months has necessitated the tightening up of the postal address database. 212 individuals receive this regular letter, and feedback has indicated that a physical letter has been a personal encouragement and a good way of maintaining connection.

The Welcome Committee

At the beginning of 2020, the Welcome Committee was nearing completion of a project to launch a suite of publicity materials, including banners and leaflets, but this was put on hold in light of the pandemic.

Communications

The parish website (https://surbitonchurch.org.uk/), A Church Near You (https://www.achurchnearyou.com/) and the social media (https://www.facebook.com/SurbitonChurch/; @Surbiton_Church) are increasingly important in effectively communicating fast-moving changes to how we worship and what is offered. At the start of the pandemic, the parish had the beginnings of a good website and social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram and Twitter).

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Maintaining the Facebook page has been an important communication tool, and a high level of engagement is seen, with people liking, commenting, and sharing the posts. Facebook Live has also been used for Morning Prayer and BCP Eucharist services, as well as supplementing the live streaming of the 11 am Parish Eucharist on Zoom.

Parish website analytics confirm that people visiting the parish website are now not searching how to hire the hall for a children’s birthday party or how to get in contact about booking a wedding, but for service times, and to find out who we are and how to give to us. Regular updating of the website is crucial in order to provide correct and up-to-date information about services, church opening and other events. The Giving page on the website, with the online donate button, was fully up and running as the first lockdown began in March 2020. With the loss of physical services, there has been an increased number of people giving to the church via this platform.

Picture 5: Website, analytics and social media

The Parish Magazine

Mike Smith stood down as editor of Spire and Tower, the parish magazine, in 2020, after a number of years. The last edition under Mike’s editorship was March/April. We are all very grateful for the work and effort that Mike has put into the magazine, which he made an award winning one! We are grateful, as well, to Katie Smith for all she has contributed to the magazine as Creative Layout Editor. Because of the pandemic and the initial closure of our churches, no magazine was published between May and October. The Curate took over as guest editor and produced a November/December edition of the magazine. He is hoping that a willing volunteer might take over the editorship of the magazine in future. The magazine committee has not re-formed since the March/April edition.

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Audio Visual (AV) Committee

The newly formed AV Committee met for the first time in December, under the chairship of the Curate. By this point, as detailed in the Vicar’s report, both churches had already made great strides in terms of enabling the broadcast of services online, from a standing start in March. At the start of the first lockdown, services went wholly online, with clergy leading from home. Later, services could be broadcast from church. Intermittently, parishioners were able to attend services in person, restrictions depending. By the summer, “hybrid services”, via Zoom, could take place at St Andrew’s and “paper free” services could take place at St Mark’s. According to the Committee’s terms of reference, the Committee exists to “lead on work to improve and maintain audio-visual capacity at both church buildings, on behalf of the PCC” and “to recruit to and maintain a body of persons able to operate the AV system during services, each Sunday, and at occasional offices”. The AV Committee helps to take forward the missional work of our parish, by increasing the accessibility of our worship.

Churchwardens’ Report on the Fabric, Goods and Ornaments of the Churches

This report was made to the Parochial Church Council (PCC) under section 5 of the Care of Churches and Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Measure 1991 by Diana Lewis, Michael Smith and Rod Pearson as Churchwardens in April 2021; and is also made by them to the annual parochial church meeting on behalf of the PCC.

General

Following major roof repairs at St Andrew’s and repairs to the wall and railings on the boundary with Maple Road which were completed in 2019, no new works or even routine maintenance have been carried out during 2020 because of the COVID lockdowns. All that has been possible has been to monitor existing issues with a view to taking action as soon as the lifting of restrictions will allow. It is fortunate that, these apart, both churches are in generally good condition.

The impact of the pandemic is very evident, however; the arrangement of the pews in St Andrew’s and the chairs in St Mark’s reflect the requirement to arrange seating so that social distancing can be maintained such that separate individuals or households remain two metres apart. It is envisaged that, once the Covid restrictions are lifted, we will be able to restore the seating to its original positions.

Extensive audio-visual equipment has been temporarily installed so that congregants can attend services remotely via Zoom and Facebook. Whilst the AV equipment is not yet a fixture, it is anticipated that the need for hybrid services will continue after restrictions are lifted. The question of a permanent placement for the AV facility will need to be addressed when the time comes.

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St Mark’s Church

Although it had been recognised in 2019 that the boilers in St Mark’s were in need of either major repair or replacement, it has not been feasible to put the work in hand during 2020 because of the pandemic, and this is something that will need to be addressed urgently in 2021 as soon as circumstances allow.

Likewise, contractors must be instructed, at the earliest opportunity in 2021, to repair the leaking/overflowing junction between the gutter and the rainwater downpipe which is causing the damp on the internal walls in the north aisle. It is suspected that the green roof over the aisle may be contributing to the leak and a regular maintenance regime will be introduced.

During 2020 evidence of rising damp has appeared in some of the columns between the nave and the north aisle. It is particularly marked in the one at the western end. It is not apparent what might be causing it, or indeed whether it is a continuing or has been a one-off occurrence. The extent of the damp has been marked with a pencil, and will be observed over the coming months.

St Andrew’s Church

As with St Mark’s, it is the identification of work needing to be done which has been the focus of attention during 2020, and there are two significant items.

It is clear, particularly from the outside, that some of the stained glass panels have become misshapen, and initial investigations have been made to clarify the cause, the scope of any necessary remedial work, and any potential sources of funding for the restoration of the east and west windows.

During the course of the year, the organ blower blew a fuse and the organ was out of service for a number of weeks. Specialist engineers were contacted and extensive investigations were carried out, and a temporary repair was effected such that the organ was restored. Two quotations have been received for the permanent repair and overhaul of the blower, and these were submitted to the PCC for consideration, before COVID restrictions halted progress.

Both these projects will be continued in 2021.

Finance

Parish Accounts 2020

Income

The PCC budgeted for unrestricted income of just under £250k in line with 2019 before the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic was known. In the event, the recorded unrestricted income fell to £233k (against a comparable figure in 2019 of £239k). This was much less of a fall than might have been expected, with hygiene restrictions

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causing the closing of the church for many months and the cancellation of many rental bookings and normal fund-raising events. Overall:

Collecting for other charities also held up well during the year, remaining at around £10k.

Expenditure

The PCC budgeted for unrestricted expenditure of £249k. The actual unrestricted expenditure of £215k was down -£16k vs 2019 (against a comparable figure in 2019 of £231k). The PCC’s contribution to the diocesan Parish Support Fund was increased by £2k (as pledged in 2019) with insurance and clergy costs remaining broadly unchanged. The decreased activity at the church saw reductions in utilities (-£4k) and church activities (-£14k) including lower expenditure on cleaning, maintenance and musical activities.

Income against Expenditure

Although somewhat unexpectedly in a pandemic year, a surplus of £19k of income over expenditure was achieved. This would have been a deficit of -£14k without the grant relating to previous years activities, and a deficit of -£37k without the one-off effect of legacies.

Assets

The PCC continues to hold investments in CCLA which rose in value to just over £550k. during the year.

Around £8k was invested in audio-visual assets to facilitate the delivery of “online church” during lockdown periods.

The PCC continues to hold the value of the halls at St Andrew’s and St Mark’s on its balance sheet (see note 4 in the accounts in relation to St Andrew’s Parish Rooms).

Big Picture Committee

The Big Picture Committee continued in 2020 to consider strategic priorities for the parish. (Note: in early 2021 it was reconstituted as the Finance and Income committee.)

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Reserves Policy

The Big Picture Committee continued to work to determine an appropriate strategy for the management of financial reserves; however, the financial impact of COVID-19 has necessitated fresh consideration of the issues.

Parish Support Fund for the Diocese

For the first time in many years, the PCC voted in 2020 to decrease the parish’s pledged contribution to the Diocesan Parish Support Fund in 2021. While we continue to support parishes elsewhere, we felt that our overall income would not support a contribution at previous levels in light of the significant reduction in our lettings income, which is not expected to pick up until well into 2021.

A stewardship campaign is planned now for the summer of 2021.

Chart 4: giving to Southwark diocese by the parish

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The Parish of St Andrew and St Mark, Surbiton P•rtsh •tS•lrtl •nd S•lnt M•rk Swwton Financial Statements A¢M¥ntsforth• yw•nd•d JI IJ•wthr2020 Ind•Pen￿ Ex•mln•ei R•pon io th• P.CC OISI Anth•￿$ Ind 51 Marti. Thi5 fepm M the accounts of ihe P.C.C. ILY ended 31 Oecemter 202C whKh are sei out M the folowint elcht wes. is rtspect ol an ex4min•tw c4rnied out in •t¢ordinct ¥￿th ￿ Chwch k<ountir WU￿tionS 2CTh I'th• Rryylaibns'l Mdlon 145 dih• kt 20111'ih• Arfl. Aesp•alw4 ft•spordlbllltl•s Tn•#•U •nd InW•ni Éx•mln•r As Ihe n￿M￿f$ ol iht P.C.C. •r• rSk￿￿ty1 for ihe pr¢p¥aikn ￿ tho •¢counts cM5bJ•f IMI lh audll reqdrtment of sectkr¢ 144 of the Act do¢3 noi Jnd that an kndependeni exwnlnotson Is ￿eded. The PCC'S ¢r05S exceeded USO.CrfKI in the syior ￿ar and l Confinn that l am qualfied to wthrtakt the •xami04ti0n by b¢tn m•mbtrof ICAEW. 11 ts my rtspthi￿b11ty IO.. exaffune thè •t¢ounts urMl¢r sert)n 145 of the CharltlesArt. to followtKg prodewre5 lald In the I￿er•I dYectbDn5 Charrt￿5 CthThmlsslon under SQrtlon 14515)b ol Th• Charitl•s A¢1, Ind to srate wtheihtr particular maiiws have com• to my •it•ntkn. 0•515 of Ind•P•r￿n EM•rnlr••es Èxamination was <arnod In accordance wlth the Dlr¢<tknhs ib¥rn bythe Chrfty C¢ffimlMlon •nd io be lound the Churth Guidance. 2006 editK)n. Thal cX¥nI￿r￿ In¢lyd¢s • rth¢w ¢1 the •¢¢ourtlfiG kepl by rhe P.C.C. arbd ¢¢rfnparison ol Iht xcounls ¥Ath thos• r•cords. 11 also lfidudes cortswry aAy urw$￿1 Items or dlsdosures In accounts •ThJ 5eekiry txplanailms a5 trustee5 tonremlh¢ any s￿h m•tters. The PfKedure5 undert•ken do noi pild¢ Ill the eVKIer￿ that would be r•guirnd in •n I￿111, and ¢￿Se9¥¢nIty I do r￿1 •xprtts Wnlon 4)n the In CoM￿￿)n wlth my éxam5n•ih)n. no m•n•r Come to my attention Bwès rnt to bdlMih•t, In •vry ftutèrlil r•sp•u: tht 1tttyjnl1￿ retords were nol kepl In •¢¢ordirte wilh iJOoftheAct' or the K£ovnts dbd rtot •¢cord ihe •¢¢ouniini reciKds: or acwunts dld not C)mpty wlth the applICab￿ requifmtftts c¢M¢emkn8 th• lonn ￿ ¢￿tertt ol xcounis sel irt In the Charitles lthcouThts and Rtporisl R•8ulaiknn$ 2(M)8 ￿h¢1 itsn wy requirernent thai t￿ accothits Ov• a Irue and lairf wbew whlchls not • maltti tonsldered is wt of an IrKlependent examinatknn. I have no ¢¢I￿rnI and hwe ¢¢¥me a¢ross no othw m•tiws kn ¢onnertxM The e¥arnlnatKJn to whkh atient1￿ shwld b• df•wn In ihls ￿P￿t in ordtr to ¢t)•ble i prwei Underrtandi￿ of the accounts to bt Teached, except th•t l thaw al¢eniitsn to the disclosurt in note 4 tg tht •c¢oyniS In ¢Mt)e¢tTron with the treatment of St Aftdrews P•ilsh R00rn5 tmth ¥Jhith l ¢on<u. Mr. TI￿thY Brthvts, 50The Rldinis Suth¢)n. Suffry. KTS 8HQ . IDd•p•741wft Exrnlr4 L%3[eé..14th4w￿2Q2J Pagelo19 Annual Report 2020 Page 31

The Parish of St Andrew and St Mark, Surbiton 57. AIIDAl¥fSA $1. SLIItIITOII SIAllhlEln 01 IIPIVKIALACfMNS FOI JI DE(Thl•fR2 TOTAL TOTAL Jy d•M Svr F¥fvds KOWMGItESCMllI￿s VoluDWy Ir<om• 10.797 L•lll 518 4bl pj. io,cco plrryn r¢h 15,741 IS.919 5A)71 24991 )4.456 X466 TOTAL INC(WI￿ It￿)U￿£s 2JJ. 10.797 244mF ?Y2.97) 211. SOURU%cXPE￿[o 5.7J7 Ji 17A17 5?2 167.195 465 17.487 3( J(t) 16?.l15 465 ITI.Y04 171ISD ?s,ni 2iJ91 ILIIO &621 J(hl Ihl 3(hl JEYWwks . 51. iji TOTIL H(S(WCfS CXPtNDtD 471X iJJ3) BE￿￿1*￿tsG￿msANoloSStS 55Jti 5%514 14ÉT I¥MMfNT IN FUMLIS 74.1 IliX4 2.135.•)I 114JS•1 1255J)25 Z215.43l SJ67 L17J312 P4et2of9 Page 32 Annual Report 2020

The Parish of St Andrew and St Mark, Surbiton ST. AN(￿EWs & 5T. MARK'SPCC SURWTON WANCE SHEET AS AT 31 OECEMKR ZOIO Unr•sir?rt•d nds A•siilct•d Endwr￿lI Fundi TOTAL TOTAL 2019 Noie XEDASSErs Land & b￿ldIn8s Tan8We assets l.Y9,410 18.722 1.549.410 18.722 1.549.4JO 14.720 r4 i¢mi In¥simert 61al s65￿58 I.133.9￿) 565.858 2.lJJ.9XI SiO.S43 2.014.673 aiRRE14T ASSÉVS Shfft terrn Investm•his qbl 358 16.719 6J.319 80.396 1.222 16,719 69.088 87,029 17,567 D¢bl¢ys & pieptymertls Cash ai bank & IThh￿d 5.769 6.633 27.112 77,ICK) Crediiors 10,192 CVAAENTASSETS 74AIO 6,633 81A43 TOTAL ASSEfs LESS UABIUTIES 2.108.799 2.215.412 2.141.581 TIIE FUNOS OF THE OIARITY io 1208.799 2.21x799 6.633 2.134.Y8 6.633 Réstrt¢ied Endowment 6.633 TOTAI 1208.799 6,633 1215.441 1.141.5¥1 Tr notes numbered 1. 12 INM a part of the$•¢¢￿1% pwv￿dbyt￿ Par(xts•lChur<h CourKil)n Ihe 141h ol Aprbl 2021 Jnd srnd on Its behalf by Revd. ftc*trt 5i•hief (Ch•iim￿) Pa8e3of9 Annual Report 2020 Page 33

The Parish of St Andrew and St Mark, Surbiton ST. ANOREWS & SF. MARKS PCC SURwro NOTESTOTHE FINI￿￿L STATÉMEins FOII THÉ VEAA E140ED JA DECEMBER2¢)XI I AcCOuNTtr￿ Pol￿($ Thy finan031 sioitmtnis have Pfepaied under thechurth Ac¢ouniini ReS￿l￿￿s 2(￿ tn ac£rydance wilh applkable ac(ounlill6 Star￿￿￿￿5 •xI thE ¢Lwieiit St4ttm¢ni ol Rffofflrntrbdtd Prthtil¢e Ileportin8by Charitie$1SORP I(X151. The fiTh4nDal 5totements h•vt b¢tn prtrpar￿ utsdof ihe historical cosi conVent￿n except lor investment as%ets, whlch irt Sr￿ •t marel value. The financial staiemenis include èll traThsaCtl¢)ns. •ssds and l￿bIl￿￿ for which the PCC i5 re5wnyblc in l•w. They do i￿l￿de the accounis ol ¢hurch groups ihai (y4e their affiliation 10 4n01￿1 body. nor tho Ih•i •it hknrm•l 8athehn¢s of ctrwjrth members. Fund x¢ounti Endowmenrlunds wve fvAds olwhi¢h the ¢apial had lo t• ￿#11￿￿. alk￿1￿ ulyth IThc￿ to t¢ srffi<. rini the year the pcc look )d¥4niaÉe of section 289 of rhe Clwrrts A(1201110 rtsth th it sho¥kl bt free to spend ihe cawtsl 01 its small endovment lund Re51ricted/unds drivtr Irom doTrat￿ orbt4uests for aspecthc Pufpose. They m•yonfyf be expe)dedo• th• fc¢i whlch T￿ were 8Nen. olothti lunds Is unresIrkt￿. bui ￿me are desl¢nate(I bythe KC for panwlaf purposes uv nned eNinL collect￿5 and 51nMlar th)n•tlons Jre rew8nised when rt(éhtd. Tax reknd5 I￿ rtto8rti5ed wh¢n th¢ IncominA rewur¢e to ¥kn4ch ihey ielare is rot •rr occounied lor when they lall due f( payment. All Iterns are •¢couAte4 lty eross. Atfir*l Income the lettiw otchurch pf•mises Is fewrased when Ihe reniil 1% due. nonaiions out of reStr￿ted funds ￿ter￿ed to bEnEfrt Ot￿rth￿ill¢S lte •rcMird I￿ when swns havt been kK4i¢d io the thari￿ in qutstK•n. dlocesan parlsh shafe Is accothited foi due. l other e¥4>endiiufc i5ieneralty re(OK1115ed when ff Is aThl Is Kcowtedloi VXS. secfiTrted artd bendlce proporry l tsot intkthd in the attounis in attord￿W1thsettIOTr i(I211al and Icl G4 tho Chaflties Act 2011 unless otherw5e sperith'ed (Mher landand building5 4re i￿l￿ded In lh auouTrls •1 ¢Mt ano ¥ poliry ol rorn4eWec￿ti0n is currentty as ilw ha¥• a bry rema1￿ ¥selul life. An invawn￿¢ rnav bt Pr￿len( in the lulure. L¥pefidilYfe on tangitAe asset5 15 written•￿ asrt is In¢urrod %¥here th 05t ol aD •Stl is •wl toor Jess tha ÉLCts). Where the cosl 15 8r¢•ief ihe expeDdiiuie Is ￿PItalised and deweoated on a dEcliniTr¥ balanc¢ basos o¥er Ilie estimèt¢d uselul life ol ihe asser. pr￿ to l January 2013 all expendrture ort rnoyawe church lurnithiw %*sted in the churchwafdpnswas written oll a5 It Was Ir￿￿Tred. Pa8e4of9 Page 34 Annual Report 2020

The Parish of St Andrew and St Mark, Surbiton sr. AIIDREIWS & ST. MARirs pcc suiiwrix4 NOTESTO TIIE FIIIANCIAL STATEMEpifs FOR THE YEAR EMOEO 31 DECEMBEA 2020 I INCOVING RE￿UR￿5 Unrtsirkted Restri¢t¢d End0¥m￿nI funds FuTrJs Fund5 TOTAL 1020 TOTAL 2019 21al volunt￿ hKom• Harthed Ta# reco¥erabl• 67,ce6 18.087 67.096 18.164 3,048 19.837 23.262 io,oio 64.837 19.931 76 Open coltKJnJ Jry donations Le8acie5 Inote 91 FuTrJ5 ralsed fOr￿her dlariries 5pe¢41 Ifusts 10,683 19,127 23262 710 iooio 10.407 130,621 10.797 141.418 111.827 21bl Acikttl¢s lor¥eneratSw4 lunds ChrisimasF¥r Actlwtkes Hall letlint5 Chwth lettlW5 6.554 38.564 5.401 50.518 6.SS4 J8.564 5,401 50,518 10,847 15.416 115,164 21cl Incom• from kn¥estsMffits ¥KI¢l￿ •nd ￿terest IS.748 AS.748 15.919 21dl thcome frtyn thurch actfvltlei fees lor weddirs. lunerals & ￿nn$ &ble readlng felh)wsNp rKtes Parish mJ£ailnt Coffee morThn8s 1.182 269 1.182 269 176 320 2.951 253 777 176 320 1.946 L946 5,071 21tl Ixhw In¢W￿l rtstyJrt•s In5vrancc wyment LPOW iKMS Giant fe 2019 Sr In(kews TowerY*rk her 24236 33.157 33.157 755 34.466 24.991 TOTAL INCOMIIK RESOVR(ES 2JJ,J( 10.797 244.097 271972 P•&eSof9 Annual Report 2020 Page 35

The Parish of St Andrew and St Mark, Surbiton ST. ANDRIWS & ST. MAWS K( SUR•ITOII )TISTOTHE APIANCIALSTATEMEllfSSOIM YeAR ENDED JI Of¢fM￿N 2020 TorAI TOTAI 2019 RESC￿￿(sEX￿IlOIo itréstrlctod Restncted Stewirdslwcosis Patlsh rfi4oa•ne<051s 491 1271 3.171 •￿T•ryr￿•1w1l. olher charMIIS 2>) 5,737 3,341 3.341 aibl S%wtd vl11th . At rhurelys. Vliknlvwp￿￿$ Ire thared tetwen (onsQtiated tul¢nD aTrJ othNL Ihrse ¢osts be a[p)rt￿)￿d beiv•NY thEW￿rat￿)n oflvnds acir+ttie% 11.82J 7.326 Wlier 974 974 17.487 17.48? 21.1 Olher hal cos 572 572 636 C•oct5an quoli Clewe¥prnstS ¢lerLyP iii.s(K) 1.861 5.Z84 12.286 8.420 6A79 9.139 8.424 lo9.￿) i.JsJ 9.715 12.345 12.789 11.553 7,022 12.671 5.255 I71,104 L861 5.28 A12 420 (￿rth a0￿1 ChJr¢h Matht•nart• her Ctyts Owt¢h rhu5 a￿l&n & Oloer Feople 6.879 9.139 8,424 167.195 167.1 ¥él Go¥err￿￿t IDdeperthnt txamint¢s lee synvd 465 465 465 576 nwco Par15hA&mi15traior Ntstt 121 A￿￿1￿6¢￿1$01 OIIILÉ .492 4,899 25.J91 20,492 4.899 29.J91 4.571 26.r%7 3ts) Chwih Q•ffseas 1.614 2.758 1.614 2,?58 J.W2 3.116 IA,110 1.76S 2.071 mi15iWS 3.136 ii,iio 8,628 31hl Rp•lrWo W￿k its Sl P¢4)f YOTAL RESOURCESV5EO ?11.6fAI 472.1)60 iiJio 215.561 Paee6019 Page 36 Annual Report 2020

The Parish of St Andrew and St Mark, Surbiton ST. AIIDREWS & ST. PCC SUABITON NOTESTO THE F114ANCM 5TATEMEN15FOR IMÉ YEAR £1￿0 31 OE(EM￿R 2020 PCC 1> the benefic41 ownerof iDlernts kn Iht lollowk¥'. yaluEaL .12 19 St. AThJrew's Parlsh Aow St. Ma￿,$ HSI Car Park Lease. St Mar's C< L037.IX12 2,702 1.037.W2 2.702 Land * Électrlc Parade 1.549.4110 J.549AIts StAThlreWs Part5h rooms viere tyinally con51nxied under ¢5oct5an owrwshSpi¢ (law￿ plannryperrnNims d have been hdd in the aCCOUDts S•￿e the￿ Cffft5trudityi. Thls was orknnalty on the ￿￿$ih# th( rooms would iransfofred to the parlsh vrxsef a partial rdundancy scheme. To dale. Ihis has noi happened arxl the PCC Is nDW l•kir¢ act￿¢ rntasures io &scertalA rfthe halls are on consttrated yound If the di¢xtst nted5 to grant kwrlial redundarty. li is recocnised thai thve is a s>)ttntiJl ¢onllict of tféatmènt between that spe¢rfied In th charrties Act 2011 al￿ GE￿raTIV k¢epled Account Pilnclpiesln ihs cwcumstance. In or¢kn io serve bder51andin¥ ol the •cmun15. th PCC 4reed to lèave the cost of Constructi￿ on Ihe balance sheet to refle(t thp assets whlch are rfenerallng inEon wrish ar￿ lorew•&tyol tr•tmertt wlih Si Mary5 Hals lther ihe Kwiiiniy doe5 fK¢T ext5tl. . MJik's Mall Is Valued atlhe estimated final rost ol Its tonsiruttkn. The 999year I￿5¢ of Dorkin¥ spaceswas Éranied fof a r￿rr￿n11 ¢+>nsthation. ts valued at a ligure equal tothe l¢e•l w%ts ol Its JwJt5itioh. AI E￿rIC p•rod• the PCC the treehold iniorest in ihe land occupied by ihe ￿arters. S T Assets Value In Fixtufes fi rlsh fth)rns. Sl. Andre￿3 Itprt(ioiedlffjm l.J.2C1131 5t Matk,) Hall Chur£h IT Équipiint 507 4562 651 6$ 7.574 7,S74 A3.S74 18.721 14.720 3.572 Computer Equipment isdCkx￿1aied ovef 3 ye¥& equlrthent 15 depreoated •1 IO% ieduclD8 ba￿￿¢+ Pa8e7of9 Annual Report 2020 Page 37

The Parish of St Andrew and St Mark, Surbiton ST. ANOREVTS & 5T. MARfS PCC SUlt•fTON NOTIS TO THE FINANCIALSTATEMENTS FOR THE ¥EAR E140ÉD 31 OECEMBER 2020 x• 2019 6(al Funds rn•n•Ked byCCLA 1wlvt5tt￿trt Manaeement Ltd. Chwth of EnRland In¥estment Fund Global Equity IfKrf)ff Fund 197,C68 565. 165.574 $10.$4J 61bl St. M¥k's￿ll Gtyld SL Mwk'5 Goneral Dep05it alc 415 4LJ 449 448 26.& Z7A67 158 It N•￿t518•n￿ Account 6,973 61.855 2( 2.459 22.586 2,C￿7 27.112 Cash 69. tjebtors fcrf 8ocJs and 5ervttJ Inland Rebtnu- tax recoyèrablt i.iy 15.525 19,916 Prep•ymeN5 16,719 21.321 & accruaj Credlitys lor goods and se Church of Enelind Bods 4.436 2358 3337 io other (harr(ic5 Relundable key ijepoyts Infome In •dvance 1.150 10.193 rJediiWS are payable ithin ye•i. for de<￿￿ts Idi￿dable at the end ol a knr¥.iemi Nre. 9 2010 1• estate of Kathl¢eth men￿11 pald a iotal of É17.695 and the t5taie of Joann He•l* pald a toi•l ol £l,LXQ io Iht parlsh. ￿ tsiate of Ihdm? ￿chardsOn madt a linol poymenl ol E4.467 to Ihe parish from a lft 2017. A Ivtihei IICf•wès ai auemation taken in Goldef's Green P•£e8019 Page 38 Annual Report 2020

The Parish of St Andrew and St Mark, Surbiton ST. ANDREWS S ST. MAAX'S Ptt SUR8IT014 I•)TESTOTNE FINWAI STATEMEPM IOA Tht YEAR ENOEOJI DE¢E¥BER 202• 2￿rn 2.2M799 455 5.175 VK4rf5fund Chti5tma% Oay Party Other r?strKtrdlur¥Ji 45$ S.175 2215AJ3 cffhtf re%viuedfvrnls romwi5•1h• PX&hFelo¥hSl.Mart's Alt4rfAdO¥KI Thèchi￿rnI5 OwP¥ty h￿dIS usedioswth•Op kn. Noollw rntmbtriso1l￿ PCC ie(eW ¥ryfft•terwlp•yrn¢nt •$rvnw￿r¥tlDry OftsPtffts. 12 Notrt ￿ 20111￿ - (W•llrosr5 are¥isin¢in Iv with ihllal - Wo expe(ttO irKie¥ ol?5% in iltrrytostSln 2021 (w thosé trtars . We havoltdwrd yur paiith fvAcontribulon 10 lhe0￿e￿ by 1S%lrw 2021 . Wt expen I0￿?￿ni￿1 br￿￿ undtr half Jertlsiorwmal ￿tt￿lj¥)￿fIlY￿, , Wt hwe •swrrfd¥nintst•seln £ifAtyrtf the prS¢fVt¥aiisryfrfn4 •aY¢Y4pw In 2021 Page9of9 Annual Report 2020 Page 39

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Contributors to the Report

Report collated and edited by Mary Elliott on behalf of the PCC.

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Structure, Governance and The Rev’d Robert Stanier, Katherine Reed,
Management Mary Elliott
Vicar’s Review of 2020 The Rev’d Robert Stanier
Adult Christian Study Clare Mannall, Jackie Robbs
Music Simon Harvey
St Andrew’s and St Mark’s The Rev’d Robert Stanier
Junior School
Children’s Activities Celia O’Neill, Sarah Stokes
Pastoral Care The Rev’d Michael Johns-Perring
Outreach and Service to the The Rev’d Carole Bourne, Moira Greenfield
Community
Fellowship in Faith Clare Mannall, Moira Greenfield
Finance Andrew Miskin, The Rev’d Robert Stanier
Property Clare Chesterman, The Rev’d Robert Stanier,
Mike Smith
The Gardens Mike Smith
Communication and Publicity The Rev’d Robert Stanier, The Rev’d Michael
Johns-Perring, Clare Chesterman
Churchwardens’ Reports Rod Pearson, Diana Lewis, Mike Smith
Kingston Deanery Synod Ian Wilson
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Kingston Deanery Synod 2020

‘Rooted in my Parish, connected by my Deanery, supported by my Diocese.’

Kingston Deanery Synod comprises seventeen parishes, all of which are situated within the boundaries of the Royal Borough. The purpose of the Synod is to bring together the representatives of these parishes in order to promote the work of the Church of God in the Kingston area. The Synod provides an opportunity for the representatives to meet three times each year to share experience of the life and work of their churches, to discuss topics of mutual interest and to work together throughout the year on Synod’s agreed priorities for action, as set out in the Deanery Mission Action Plan.

Clergy are members of the Synod and each church elects lay representatives every three years. The Area Dean is appointed by the Bishop of Kingston with clergy having an opportunity to express their preference: Synod members elect the lay chairman. This parish has four members on Synod: Anne Barker, Valerie Baxter, Helen Goepel and Ian Wilson. Principal matters which came to the fore during the year were:

Southwark Diocesan Synod

For information, Ian Wilson is a representative of Kingston Deanery on the above. An informative report of the proceedings can be found in The Bridge newspaper.

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